Honoring Our Heroes

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Peyton Andrew James

Organ Donor

Age: 13
Location: Austin, TX
Date of Donation: 10/13/2014
Hospital: Dell Children's Medical Center

…started Products for Peyton (www.facebook.com/groups/752492464824165/) to collect travel/hotel sized toiletries for the Ronald McDonald House. His mother began the #Kindness Matters (www.kindness-matters.org) movement in order to bring an awareness to…

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Robert Nicholas Husak

Organ Donor

Age: 19
Location: Morrison, CO
Date of Donation: 05/26/2011
Hospital: Anthony's Hospital

…owning his own chain of hotels. One of his other aspirations was to open an online hobby store specializing in Yu-Gi-Oh cards. He LOVED his Yu-Gi-Oh cards!! He would carry…

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Spencer Patton Squire

Organ Donor

Age: 6
Location: Dallas, TX
Date of Donation: 08/08/2007
Hospital: Children's Medical Center

…Texas; and Special remembrances by area high school football and hockey teams, stories in the press, a book dedication, and website www.spencersquire.com that was customized by Spencer’s soccer coach. Since then,…

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Garrett Haley Terrell

Organ Donor

Age: 11
Location: Concord, NC
Date of Donation: 09/23/2003

www.vimeo.com/9957697. This has been my passion…to get this seen around the world, and then some. The mission has been accomplished, but there is plenty of room for “icing on the…

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Ben Harrison

Organ Donor

Age: 10 years
Location: Sydney, Australia
Date of Donation: 05/18/1993
Hospital: Camperdown Children's Hospital

…initiated Donor Heroes’ Night held on the DFA Facebook page to commemorate Ben and all Donor Heroes nationally. On 18th May 2024 the event reached out to over 26,000. https://www.facebook.com/DonorFamiliesAustralia…

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Mark Steven Bishop

Organ Donor

Age: 50
Location: Cedar Park, TX
Date of Donation: 02/02/2007
Hospital: Brackenridge Hospital

and discussing many issues. Somehow, the topic of organ donation after death never came up. Mark loved to help people. He was a creative electrical engineer and respected coworker. He…

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John Alexander Lefferts

Organ Donor

Age: 22
Location: Springfield, IL
Date of Donation: 10/11/2004
Hospital: Memorial Medical Center

…involved in them at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield. Among many other activities, he was a student senator, a member of Model Illinois Government, on a search committee for

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Dean Brown

Organ Donor

Age: 21
Date of Donation: 05/27/2008

…be free of it but cannot defeat the demons that keep them from SUCCESS. SUCCESS PROGRAM Step One: Find job (while job searching begin workout routine) Step Two: Start 5…

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Anne Wilson vonBriesen Lurz

Organ Donor

Age: 73
Location: Houston, TX
Date of Donation: 06/03/2010
Hospital: Select Specialty Hospital

…life and became that beautiful butterfly free to fly. We miss her deeply but would not take that new life away from her. nne met Joe while still in high…

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Sarah Elizabeth Izzo

Organ Donor

Age: 12
Location: Austin, TX
Date of Donation: 10/05/1995
Hospital: Breckenridge Hospital

…on the way home from the hospital the morning Sarah died. It hurt to open my eyes in the bright sunlight because of the lack of sleep and all the…

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